Waves / 1946 to 1954 · Europe and beyond
The postwar apparitions
Europe came out of the war seeing the Virgin. Children in Bavaria, the Loire valley and Lombardy reported her within eighteen months of the surrender, rose petals fell on a Philippine convent, a hundred thousand people came to a Wisconsin farm, and in 1950 Pope Pius XII said he had watched the sun dance in the Vatican gardens. The Church approved almost none of it.
April 25, 1946August 29, 1953
Stories in this wave12
The Marienfried Apparitions: Bärbel Rueß and the Mediatrix of All Graces
19Thinly documented
The Bête du Cézallier, the post-war beast of Auvergne
34Partially documented
The Madonna of the Bocco: Angela Volpini's Apparitions at Casanova Staffora
35Partially documented
The L'Île-Bouchard apparitions: Our Lady of Prayer
31Partially documented
The Rosa Mystica apparition in Montichiari Cathedral
24Thinly documented
The Lipa apparitions and rose-petal showers at the Carmelite Monastery, Lipa (1948)
57Partially documented
The Lublin Miracle: the Weeping Madonna of Lublin Cathedral
45Partially documented
The Heroldsbach Apparitions and Sun Miracle, Upper Franconia (1949-1952)
35Partially documented
The Necedah Apparitions: Mary Ann Van Hoof and the Assumption Day Crowd
32Partially documented
Pope Pius XII sees the 'miracle of the sun' in the Vatican Gardens (1950)
14Thinly documented
The Sabana Grande apparitions: the Virgen del Pozo of Barrio Rincón, Puerto Rico, 1953
32Partially documented
The Weeping Madonna of Syracuse (Madonna delle Lacrime)
71Well documented